Journal Entry # 7

Montag seems to really have something on his mind that causes such a frustration within his own anxiousness. "Now Beatty was almost invisible, a voice somewhere behind a screen of smoke...."What's this?" asked Mildred, almost with delight Montag heaved back against her arms. What's this here?"..... "Sit down!" Montag shouted, (Bradbury 56). Apparently Mildred came across the book he had hidden behind his pillow. Ironically Beatty goes into depth about the happiness of the civilization and how in ignorant comparisons he says-"Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book", (Bradbury 59). Honestly, I feel that "future" civilization had definitely been brain washed. It seems that Montag is the only sane one- "Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same....insane mistakes!” (Bradbury 74). I support Montag as an individual character. I now begin to see the persistence of the man who once found light from Mr. Faber (an English professor he met in the park) who provided Guy with the insights of his time period. (189 words).